"Most people celebrating the holiday and everything, people staying at the hotel, usually visiting friends and family, don't think anything like that is going to take place," said Maitland police Sgt. Louis Grindle.

The men have shown a pattern of violence. In a robbery of a Homewood Suites in Lake Mary on Dec. 22, the robbers jumped the counter and knocked a hotel worker to the ground. The worker was then hit with a pistol.

"They just maybe had easy access to one and figured that the next victim or hotel that they hit may be just as easy as the other one," said Grindle.